I hadn’t realised the parking situation was so desperate in San Francisco that someone was forced to install a secret garage in their ground floor! To please the city council, the architects retained the Upper Haight house’s facade, which you can see actually revolves and folds in the video here, allowing four cars to enter and exit. More »
Got a couple of fancy cars and a couple of million dollars to burn? If you do, you could probably use a robotic garage lot to store them in style. If not, just ogle these mechanical marvels. More »
newVideoPlayer("/skygarage_gizmodo.flv", 506, 423,"");The En Suit Sky Garage, a personal elevator for your car, is pretty damn cool.
Brad Fitzpatrick has hacked his HTC G1 Android smartphone to use it as a secure remote which can open his home’s garage door as he gets close to it. Using Wi-Fi, the mobile phone automatically fires up an HTTP request to his home server as soon as it’s near enough, which triggers the opening as well as other functions in the house.
The garage, also known as “car hole” in some circles, has traditionally been a somewhat wasted space. Aside from holding vehicles for a few hours of the day, it’s often a crap collector, the place for rusty saws and tangled Christmas lights. Electronic House has assembled a list of five garages that have transcended to status quo to home theatre status. This particular theatre was converted from a 3-car garage and features a premium 1080p projector along with 7,000W of surround sound. So while the setup can’t haul arse, worry not, it still annoys the hell out of the neighbours. [Electronic House via CrunchGear]
